...the State Auditor has been busy at work trying to find options for legislators to consider for getting the state budget back on track....

...this week's votes in Congress and bills introduced....

...The over 2000-page EIS had been produced by a group of ten West Hawaiʻi aquarium fishers and the National Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, on their proposal to ask the DLNR to issue permits to the ten aquarium fishers....

...1,492 ballots were not counted in the final result.... 

...no new deaths, no new hospitalizations....

...claims are clustered in zip codes where the tourism industry is a particularly important source of employment....

...It allows all traveler information collected through the current processes to be integrated into its ArcGIS database....

...Assume visitor industry will start opening in September 2020 and will recover 30 percent of arrivals (from same month in 2019) in September and 45 percent in December 2020....

...approved reopenings for Maui, Kauai, Oahu....

...Gov. David Ige issued the 14th supplementary emergency proclamation which extends the emergency relief period for the 2018 Kaua‘i floods. The proclamation was signed on Friday, May 22, 2020....

...neighborhood boards will be able to reconvene public meetings starting on Monday, June 1....

...expanding the bulky item appointment-based collection system island-wide starting July 1, 2020....

...proposals regarding how Hawaii can recover and even excel after the state's economically devastating coronavirus lockdown....

...as of Sunday, May 17, Hawaii became Scattered Canary’s latest unemployment fraud victim....

...One way policymakers can help expedite their state’s economic recovery is by protecting employers from facing higher UI tax rates at a time when they can least afford to pay them....

...According to the United States Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey, released on May 20....

...Hawai’i central planners should reevaluate their push to implement more and more projects, such as TOD, mass transit, and shared vehicles, which contribute to the spread of disease....

...six released, one hospitalized, no new deaths....

...Thirty-two percent of Hawaii’s rural roads are rated in poor condition – the third highest rate in the nation- and 31 percent are in mediocre condition....

...only Nevada and Michigan are higher....